US Patent Issued to NIKON on March 11 for "Optical device, exposure device, method for manufacturing flat panel display, and method for manufacturing device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,253, issued on March 11, was assigned to NIKON Corp. (Tokyo).

"Optical device, exposure device, method for manufacturing flat panel display, and method for manufacturing device" was invented by Yasushi Mizuno (Saitama, Japan) and Masaki Kato (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical device includes a plurality of laser light sources, an output module having an optical modulator, and a time divider that is disposed between the plurality of laser light sources and the output module and that is configured to divide laser beams emitted from the plurality of laser light sources in time."

The patent was filed on Dec. 29,...